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RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the ob- servance of the following rules of practice:
(1) Attending physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disahled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused cemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal. directly or indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septi- or electrical agents, and deaths following ahortion, but also death; from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
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PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Winthrop
(City or town making return)
53
Registered No.
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME.
Eugene Merchant Brown
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
100 Quincy Avenue
.. St.,.
.. Ward,
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
100m-12-'34. No. 2938-6
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the butial or transit permit was issued: Www. D. Children Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other
Health exercer 3/30/38 (Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
Marale
28
1938
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
July 3
19.8 ... , to
March 27, 1938
I last saw h .. Amnpallve on.
March 27
1938, death is said
to have occurred on the date stated above, at.
8 8.m.
The principal cause of death and related causes of Importance In order of onset
were as follows:
arteriosclerosis
Date of Onset 1927
1930
Cerebral Newimage
Www. 28.38
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
Endo Carditis
Name of operation.
Date of.
What test confirmed diagnosis?
Was there an autopsy? No.
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
No.
If so, specify.
(Signed)
, M. D.
(Address)
Winthrop
Date WA 2 419 38
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
Wildwood, Ashland Mass
CREMATION OR REMOVAL
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
...
DATE OF BURIAL
March .... 30. ..... 1938
19
22 NAME OF
Charles R. Bennison
UNDERTAKER
ADDRESS
Winthrop Mass
Received and filed ... ........
19
A TRUE COPY, ATTEST:
(Registrar)
IN. D .- WKIIL PLAINLI ,
1
Winthrop
(City or Town)
No ...
100 Quincy Avenue
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred2 2
3 SEX
Male
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
Georgia .... Armstrong
(or) WIFE of
(Give maiden name of wife in fully
(Husband's name in full)
6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
7
78
AGE.
Years.
7
Months.
9.
Days
9 Industry or business in which
work was done, as silk mill,
saw miil, bank, etc.
Office
year)
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Cambridge
(State or country)
Massachusetts
13 NAME OF
FATHER
George Dana Brown
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City) ..
Holliston
See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate.
OCCUPATION
PARENTS
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Ashland
(State or country)
Massachusetts
17
Ralph E. Brown
Informant
CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION
(State or country)
Massachusetts
is very important.
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
Married
.....
If less than 1 day
Hours ..........
Minutes
Medical doctor &
8 Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done, as spinner Doctor of Dental Surgery Qui sawyer, bookkeeper, etc ....
10 Date deceased last worked at
11 Total time (years)
this occupation (month andMarch 1938spent in this
occupation
53
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Josephine Merchant
Relation, if any
son
(Address)
100 Quincy Ave. Winthrop Mass
AVAG information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state .........
...
(If U. S.
War Veteran.
specify WAR)
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth?
yrs.
yrs.
MOS.
St., ....................
Ward
Statement of occupation .- Precise statement of oceupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits ean be known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had been given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the occupation prior to illness. If the deceased had retired from business, report the occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may be returned as at school or at home. For a woman whose only occupation was that of home housework, write housework in answer to Question 8 and own home in answer to Question 9. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terms, as housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation what- ever write none.
To be complete, an occupation return must state:
8 .- The trade, profession, or particular kind of work done.
9 .- The industry or business in which the work was done.
10 .-- The month and ycar the deceased last worked at the occupation. 11 .- The number of years the deceased followed the occupation.
In stating the occupation, avoid the use of such indefinite terms as "employee, " "worker," "operative," etc. Find out the parti- cular kind of work done and return that, as spinner, weaver, etc.
In stating the industry or business, avoid the use of such general terms as "store, ' "factory," "mill," etc. State the particular kind of store, factory, mill, etc., as grocery store, soap factory, cotton mill, etc.
Distinguish carefully the different kinds of engineers by stating the full descriptive titles, as civil engineer, mechanical engineer, mining engineer, stationary engineer, ctc. Avoid the term "laborer" when a more precise statement of the occupation can be secured. Do not use the word "mechanic, " but give the exact occupation, as carpenter, painter, machinist, etc. Distinguish carefully between retail merchants and wholesale merchants. A person who sells goods should be called a salesman and not a clerk.
Statement of cause of death .- Cause of death means the disease, or complication which causes death, not the mode of dying, c. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. As principal cause name the disease causing death. As related causes, name earlier morbid conditions, if any, related to the principal cause and any important complication of the principal causc. Under contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause, name other important diseases.
Example
The principal cause of death and related causes! of importance in order of onset were as follows: Arteriosclerosis
Date of onset
7013
Chronic interstitial nephritis
1021
Cerebral hemorrhage
July 5, 1927
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
In a group of causes containing the principal cause and related eauses, the causes should be given in the order of onset, so that in a group of three causes the principal cause may appear in either first, second, or third position. The principal cause in the above example happens to be the second cause given.
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF OF DEATH A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forth- with, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last illness, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deccased. furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the discase of which he died, defined as required by section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last secn alive by the physician or officer and the date of his death .... Gen. Laws, Chat. 46, Sec. 9.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall ezhume a human body and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the Same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satis- factory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human body. not previously interred, from one town to another within the common- wealth cannot be obtained carly enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such re- moval; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a. permit in the usual form for the removal of such body has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as re- quired by section ten of chapter forty-six, that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other necessary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death. which the clerk or registrar may require. - Chap. 114, Sec. 45, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition.)
Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as are supposed to have died by violence .... Gen. Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.
.... He shall in all cases certify to the town clerk or registrar in the place where the deceased died his name and residence, if known; otherwise a description as full as may be, with the cause and manner of death .- Gen. Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 7.
No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body or the ashes thereof which have been brought into the commonwealth until he has received a permit so to do from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the body is to be buried or the funeral is to be held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the ceme- tery or burial ground in which the interment is made .. . . Chop. 114, Sec. 46. G. L., (Tercentenary Edition.)
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following rules of practice:
(1) Attending physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disabled by recognized discase un- related to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attend- ance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
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Suffolk
(City or Town) 137 Loring Road
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
50
......................
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME .. Alma ... Gertrude(Forresta]]]Papper (If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence.
No ...
137 Loring Road
30
yrs.
mos.
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth?
yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Married
6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
AGE
Years
.Months
Days
If less than 1 day .. Hours .. .Minutes
8 Trade, profession, or particular
kind of work done, as spinuer,
sawyer, bookkeeper, etc ....
House work
9 Industry or business in which
Own home
10 Date deceased last worked at
this occupation (month andNov. 1937
year)
11 Total time (years)
spent in this
occupation ..
12 BIRTHPLACE (City).
Chelsea
(State or country)
Massachusetts
13 NAME OF
Harry G. Forrestall
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
Chelsea
(State or country)
Massachusetts
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Lilla Dale Dill
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
Charlestown
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Massachusetts
17 John W. Pepper
Relation, if any husband
Informard (Address)37 Loring Rd. Winthrop ass
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was
filed with me BEFORE the burial or trangt permit was issued:
Wm. Dehildreng
(Siznature of Agentof Board of Health or other)
18.0 april 1/38
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
mar, 31, 1938
(Month)
(Day)/
(Year)
19
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That i attended deceased from
3/1
193 8, to
3/31
19.3 0
I last saw h
allve on
19.3 .... , death is said
3/30
4h.m.
to have occurred on the date stated above, at.
The principal cause of death and related causes of Importance In order of onset
were as follows:
Date of Onset
Chu
..............
ultral Neglute
.936
1235
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
Name of operation
Date of
What test confirmed diagnosis?
Was there an autopsy ?.
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify
(Signed)
., M. D.
(Address)
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
Woodlawn
Everett
CREMATION OR REMOVAL
(City or town)
DATE OF BURIAL
April 2 1938
19
22 NAME OF
Charles R. Bennison
UNDERTAKER
....
ADDRESS.
Winthrop Mass
Received and filed. 19
(Registrar)
A TRUE COPY, ATTEST:
100m-12-34. No. 2938-6 N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. PARENTS
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
Hiivan
information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state
(County) 1 Winthrop No. ..... (Usual place of abode) 3 SEX Female 4 COLOR OR RACE White 5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of 7 59 x OCCUPATION FATHER FATHER (City) is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION work was done, as ailk mill, saw mill, bank, etc.
Every Item or
PLACE OF DEATH
XSt., ................ Ward
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
specify WAR)
Ward,
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
John William Pepper
(Husband's name in full)
24
Heart
...
Date ...
Statement of occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known, Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had been given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the occupation prior to illness. If the deceased liad retired from business, report the occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may be returned as at school or at home. For a woman whose only occupation was that of home housework, write housework in answer to Question 8 and own home in answer to Question 9. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terms, as housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation what- ever write none.
To be complete, an occupation return must state:
8 .- The trade, profession, or particular kind of work done.
9 .- The industry or business in which the work was done.
10 .- The month and year the deceased last worked at the occupation.
11 .- The number of years the deceased followed the occupation.
In stating the occupation, avoid the use of such indefinite terms as "employee," "worker." "operative," etc. Find out the parti- cular kind of work done and return that, as spinner, weaver, etc.
In stating the industry or business, avoid the use of such general terms as "store, ' "factory." "inili," etc. State the particular kind of store, factory, mill, etc., as grocery store, soap factory, cotton mill, etc.
Distinguish carefully the different kinds of engineers by stating the full descriptive titles, as civil engineer, mechanical engineer, mining engineer, stationary engineer, etc. Avoid the term "laborer" when a more precise statement of the occupation can be secured. Do not , use the word "mechanic, " but give the exact occupation, as carpenter, painter, machinist, ctc. Distinguish carefully between retail merchants and wholesale merchants. A person who sells goods should be called a salesman and not a clerk.
Statement of cause of death .- Cause of death means the disease, or complication which causes death, not the mode of dying, e. g., hcart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. As principal cause name the disease causing death. As related causes, name earlier morbid conditions,. if any, related to the principal cause and any important complication of the principal cause. Under contributory causes of importance not . related to principal cause, name other important diseases.
i
Example
1
The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows: Arteriosclerosis ....
Date of onset
Chronic interstitial nephritis
1021
Cerebral hemorrhage
July 5, 1027
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
...
In a group of causes containing the principal cause and related causes, the causes should be given in the order of onset, so that in a group of three causes the principal cause may appear in cither first', second, or third position. The principal cause in the above example happens to be the second cause given.
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forth- with, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last illness, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deceased. furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as required by section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of his death .... Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human body and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satis- factory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human body. not previously interred, from one town to another within the common- wealth cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such re- moval; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for the removal of such body has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the deatlı certificate contains a recital, as re- quired by section ten of chapter forty-six, that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician certifving the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other necessary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require. - Chap. 114, Sec. 45. G. L., (Tercentenary Edition.)
Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as are supposed to have died by violence .... Gen. Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.
.... Hc shall in all cases certify to the town clerk or registrar in the place where the deceased died his name and residence, if known; otherwise a description as full as may be, with the cause and manner of death .- Gen. Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 7.
No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body or the ashes thereof which have been brought into the commonwealth until he has received a permit so to do from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the body is to be buried or the funeral is to be held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the ceme- tery or burial ground in which the interment is made .. .. Chap. 114, Sec. 46, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition.)
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following rules of practice:
(1) Attending physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disabled by recognized disease un- related to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attend- ance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
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